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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: ELA on September 13, 2024, 08:59:52 PM
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https://twitter.com/B1GSoccer/status/1834754971008409856?t=vVUfkXlH36xR156bk-eYsA&s=19
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With their best player out for the year. They went winless in the postponed 2020 season. They better pay the man
https://twitter.com/MSU_wsoccer/status/1836923362834272596?t=jBVg06Nh20xFJd3VGtUkcA&s=19
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Why can't Rutgers just be normal?
Yhis is like the 5th or 6th abuse/inappropriate behavior from a Rutgers coach or administrator in like the last decade
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A bigger Big Ten Conference means a bigger Big Ten Baseball Tournament.
A report from D1Baseball's Patrick Ebert indicates the tournament will expand to 12 teams in 2025. That expansion will also come with a change of format.
The previous model, with eight qualifying teams, operated as two, four-team double-elimination brackets. The winners of each bracket played a winner-take-all final.
The new format would remove the bracket until the semifinals, while still guaranteeing every qualifying team two games. The 12 teams will be split into four pods of three teams. Winners of each pod will advance to a single-elimination bracket.
The Big Ten Baseball Tournament is slated to remain in Omaha at least through the 2027 season. Charles Schwab Field, previously TD Ameritrade Park, has hosted the tournament every year since 2018, except for the canceled COVID-19 season. Omaha also has hosted the event in 2014 and 2016.
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Wisconsin will never make the baseball tourney.
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Is this OSUs actual soccer field? No bleachers, and it looks like someone freehand drew the midfield logo
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The soccer teams play in Jesse Owens stadium
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Is this OSUs actual soccer field? No bleachers, and it looks like someone freehand drew the midfield logo
who cares???
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I mean they are #1 in the country, and this is the non revenue sports thread?
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I had to look it up - I've been to a soccer game so I know they have lots of seats. But I think they are only on one side and the camera always shoots from the seated side. The view from the other side.
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There's stands on both sides.
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That's why I'm guessing they were playing elsewhere last night. It also looked like someone painted the logo, freehand, by memory, 5 minutes before the game
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Show the ratings gor the Intercontinental Championship
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Hockey at 4-0 in Big Ten play with back to back sweeps of Notre Dame and Ohio State. Womens soccer advances and only has 2 losses all season. They also have the #1 tennis player in the nation
I'm only half joking by suggesting that MSU could be elite in a few non-revenue sports, by shifting some of the NIL we pay just to keep our head above water in the revenue sports. And the checks from the tv deals come either way
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MSU pulls off the sweep of #1 Minnesota in Minneapolis. Probably headed back to #1 after falling out with a split in Madison last weekend.
The thought of MSU being #1 in the nation, coming off a 3-1 stretch on the road against the old WCHA teams is pretty unthinkable considering how bad they had been. They hadn't won a conference championship in 23 years, and hadn't made the tournament in 12
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MSU overcomes the refs letting Iowa play a fouled out player and a phantom lane violation to get to 10-0 in WBB
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The Nebraska men’s gymnastics team heads into the 2025 season ranked No. 4 in the College Gymnastics Association preseason coaches poll.
Stanford leads the poll, ranked No.1 for the 2025 season as the defending NCAA Champions.
Big Ten foe Michigan is ranked second, Oklahoma is third and Nebraska is fourth. Illinois rounds out the top five.
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#2 MSU, playing without their captain, up 8-3 on #4 Minnesota.
I said a few years ago that MSU should drop hockey, instead they are now investing more into the sport than Minnesota
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Selection show?
Does the committee get protection from the shooters they leave out?
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Minnesota and Michigan both upset in the first round of the BTT (hockey). surprising because not only is it played on the home ice, but the first round is best of 3.
PSU remains the hottest team in the league down the stretch. Swept Michigan, now goes to Columbus
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I didn't realize how much MSU had wandered in the wilderness before the current coach.
UW is currently a mess, which is just irksome given the tradition. UW women are the favorite, but single elimination hockey is always tough.
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I didn't realize how much MSU had wandered in the wilderness before the current coach.
UW is currently a mess, which is just irksome given the tradition. UW women are the favorite, but single elimination hockey is always tough.
3 bad coaching hires in a row will do that
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Gable Steveson has go to be over 25. He has received been wrestling on the collegiate level for a ridiculously long time
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yup, started in 2018
left early a couple years ago for the Olympics
had a year of eligibility left and came back this season
I think he's done now
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3 bad coaching hires in a row will do that
Comely was considered bad?
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Comely was considered bad?
He had one foot out the retirement door. Mason hired him as a friend. He slashed the recruiting budget and redistributed it to himself and his assistants.
He took a program that had finished 1st or 2nd in the CCHA 5 straight years, and hadn't finished lower than 3rd in a decade, and slowly drained the talent to the point that they finished dead last the year he was fired. They hadn't missed the tourney in a decade, and he immediately missed it his first year, and missed it 5 times in 9 years. He won a national title, which bought him some time, but that was in a year where they were the last team into the field, and pulled 4 straight upsets.
I think at one time he was a good coach, and his Xs and Os were still fine, but he was done with everything else the goes along with the job. The talent began fading quickly, as did fan interest. When I arrived in 2003, hockey was as hot a ticket as basketball. You could only get partial season ticket plans. By my senior year they were begging students to show up.
Anastos was an "outside the box" hire that made no sense. He had been a head coach 25 years earlier, for 2 years, at an NAIA school, and had otherwise been a conference administrator.
The Danton Cole/Adam Nightingale thing is weird. I loved the Cole hire, and it just didn't work. But then Adam Nightingale was almost the exact same hire, and it's gone great. Cole was an MSU alum, who had D1 head coaching experience, and came over after 7 years as the head coach of the USNDP. Nightingale was an MSU alum, with no head coaching experience, who came over after 2 years as the head coach of the USNDP. It just kind of shows how coach hires are always still a bit of a crap shoot
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GjO9PP2RUE
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The team recently qualified for their 4th straight National 7s Collegiate Rugby Championships held in Washington D.C. The Huskers have finished as high as 2nd place in recent seasons but are hoping this year to bring home a championship.
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Congratulations to @lexi.rodriguez__ on being the first Husker volleyballer to win the prestigious AAU James E. Sullivan award! Rodriguez joins an elite group of athletes and is only the third volleyball player in history to earn the honor.
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How didn't Shedeur win?
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Big Ten baseball tournament starts tomorrow with the new format.
Only top 12 qualified, split into 4 pools of 3. Four pool winners advance to semis.
In other college diamond news, #1 overall seed Texas A&M didn't advance out of the regional, losing twice to Liberty biberty. First time in WCWS history
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Big Ten baseball tournament starts tomorrow with the new format.
Only top 12 qualified, split into 4 pools of 3. Four pool winners advance to semis.
In other college diamond news, #1 overall seed Texas A&M didn't advance out of the regional, losing twice to Liberty biberty. First time in WCWS history
Yeah that was rough. I was watching some of that with my i s c & a aggie wife, all we could do was shake our heads.
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Fire Bob Todd.
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poor aggies
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https://twitter.com/B1Gbaseball/status/1923902829967585665
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Illinois chased Michigan's ace 3 batters into the game.
This pool play format, I wonder if the thinking is, he doesn't have it today, get him out, and see if he can start again on Thursday
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Apparently the top seed in each pool wins the tiebreaker automatically. On one hand, I like rewarding regular season performance. On the other hand, because the bottom 2 teams in each pool play each other first, it makes the 2nd game for the loser meaningless, because at that point the best you could get is a three way 1-1 tie, where the top seed advances anyway.
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I really liked pool play in the B12 tournament, and so did Augie. For Texas, the conference tourney was typically irrelevant, and working your way through a large double or even single elimination tournament could burn a lot of arms, before NCAA tourney which is the one that is actually important.
The single-elimination top-4-seeds-double-bye tourney that the SEC is using, is also a decent compromise between potentially helping the teams at the bottom, without risking too much harm to the teams at the top, so I'm okay with it too.
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I really liked pool play in the B12 tournament, and so did Augie. For Texas, the conference tourney was typically irrelevant, and working your way through a large double or even single elimination tournament could burn a lot of arms, before NCAA tourney which is the one that is actually important.
The single-elimination top-4-seeds-double-bye tourney that the SEC is using, is also a decent compromise between potentially helping the teams at the bottom, without risking too much harm to the teams at the top, so I'm okay with it too.
I like the idea of pool play too. But then make run differential the tiebreaker.
Nice of Miami to come out and get run ruled by the last place team to get championship week started. Being done before noon on Day 1
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I like the idea of pool play too. But then make run differential the tiebreaker.
Nice of Miami to come out and get run ruled by the last place team to get championship week started. Being done before noon on Day 1
To put it another way, Pool A is Oregon, Nebraska, MSU.
Whoever wins the Nebraska-MSU game tonight is playing a de facto QF game against Oregon, while the loser is playing a meaningless game against Oregon. Let's say Nebraska wins. If they then beat Oregon, they advance at 2-0. If Oregon wins, they advance, because they either beat MSU and go 2-0, or lose to MSU and win the 1-1 tiebreaker automatically. So all they did was create a 12 team single elimination tourney, where teams have to play an extra pointless game
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Michigan with 3 in the 8th to tie it up, after not getting an out from their starter
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To put it another way, Pool A is Oregon, Nebraska, MSU.
Whoever wins the Nebraska-MSU game tonight is playing a de facto QF game against Oregon, while the loser is playing a meaningless game against Oregon. Let's say Nebraska wins. If they then beat Oregon, they advance at 2-0. If Oregon wins, they advance, because they either beat MSU and go 2-0, or lose to MSU and win the 1-1 tiebreaker automatically. So all they did was create a 12 team single elimination tourney, where teams have to play an extra pointless game
3 of the 4 games today are irrelevant.
Michigan vs. UCLA - UCLA advances at either 2-0 or 1-1
USC vs. Penn State
MSU vs. Oregon - No matter who wins, whoever wins Oregon-Nebraska tomorrow advances
Iowa vs. Indiana - Iowa advances at either 2-0 or 1-1
Hard to imagine nobody realized how dumb formatting it like this was. Just make it 12 team single elimination
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Does anyone actually find those "win probability graphs" to be useful? All they do is reflect the score at any given moment. I'm capable of doing that myself without the stupid graph.
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What was it in the exact moment the game ending pop fly hit the RF glove? :96:
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it was a bit of a liner and not a pop up can of corn, but .... it was a routine play and hit the glove in a bad spot
looked like he squeezed the glove before the ball hit the webbing
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Does anyone actually find those "win probability graphs" to be useful?
I find them entertaining on rare occasions where they reach almost 100% and the other teams comes back to win, but other than that ....
But say it shows Team X has an 80% chance to win, as you note, it means it's the 4th quarter and the score is ~27-14. Duh. No added useful information.
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Well that's how you take advantage of a break
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Does anyone actually find those "win probability graphs" to be useful?
Quite distressing if you're a Cleveland Sports Fan
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Big Ten projected to get 4 teams in, and Nebraska is the most veteran member of the bunch. Plus 3 of the Pac 12 additions.
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glad the old PAC is helpin in the non-revenue area
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Texas Tech ends Oklahoma’s 4-year run as Women’s College World Series champ with walk-off 3-2 win
Texas vs. Texas Tech in the WCWS Finals
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-texas-tech-wcws-score-48a0ed92738c6620ab837d2e12ef114f
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Director's Cup All-Sports Trophy coming down to the wire:
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Gavin McKenna, who never would have been eligible to play college hockey before, and is the projected #1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, visited MSU yesterday, and is expected to announce between MSU and PSU soon.
PSU has the higher NIL package. MSU returns the 2025 Hobey Baker (Hockey Heisman) winner, and Goalie of the Year along with 13 other NHL picks.
Either way, Adam Nightengale has earned every bit of his extension
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if yer the #1 pick in the draft, don't ya get paid better than a PSU hockey player?
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if yer the #1 pick in the draft, don't ya get paid better than a PSU hockey player?
#1 pick in the 2026 Draft, not draft eligible until next year. But because juniors in Canada get paid a little bit, they were never previously eligible to play in the NCAA. Now they are, and the best players can get more from NIL playing NCAA hockey than they can staying in juniors.
Apparently he won Juniors MVP in his age 16 season, which is the third time ever. The other two were John Tavares and Sidney Crosby
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ahhh, I C
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Ugh, looks like it's PSU
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Ugh, looks like it's PSU
$700k, fully guaranteed. $950k is the most an NHL pick can make, and he's not even eligible for the draft until next year
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We'll see what happens to Iowa now that CC is in the WNBA.
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they could easily drop out of the top 5
coach retired too
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Gavin McKenna, who never would have been eligible to play college hockey before, and is the projected #1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, visited MSU yesterday, and is expected to announce between MSU and PSU soon.
PSU has the higher NIL package. MSU returns the 2025 Hobey Baker (Hockey Heisman) winner, and Goalie of the Year along with 13 other NHL picks.
Either way, Adam Nightengale has earned every bit of his extension
Or not. He was in some sort of dispute with Tampa Bay, because he didn't like how they reviewed an injury or something, but they traded him to Edmonton yesterday, so he's going pro.
Not the best week for what was trending towards being the preseason #1
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Season opener today in River Falls, Wisconsin. Go Big Red! Rodeo
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It appears MSU's womens soccer portalling did not go as well this year. Dropped from preseason #8 to unranked, and lost 3-0 to Notre Dame last night.
Now 3-2-2 on the season, and ND is the only ranked team they've played.
For comparison, last year they lost 1 regular season game total, and they had lost 4 total over the past 2 regular seasons, in reaching back to back Sweet 16s
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Just south of Preston, Texas, 1847. Two cow-pokes sitting out on the range as the sun settles over the bluffs. It's been a long, dusty day on a long cattle drive north. Tomorrow, the river crossing.
Billy takes a deep pull from his flask...
"Hey Bobby Joe, betcha I can ride that bull longer than you can."
[Truth is more like: Paso del Toro, Mexico, 1598: "Eh, Juan, apuesto a que puedo montar ese grande toro mas tiempo que tu!"]
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It appears MSU's womens soccer portalling did not go as well this year. Dropped from preseason #8 to unranked, and lost 3-0 to Notre Dame last night.
Now 3-2-2 on the season, and ND is the only ranked team they've played.
For comparison, last year they lost 1 regular season game total, and they had lost 4 total over the past 2 regular seasons, in reaching back to back Sweet 16s
ND normally fields a pretty good team. Wisconsin is hovering around the top 25, but was bounced after a loss. We'll see if they can scrape their way back up. Playing on the West Coast is a shame for these teams. The travel is brutal, and USC is good. UCLA is no slouch, either.